#RetroRadio Screen Directors’ Playhouse (1951): Alfred Hitchcock’s “Spellbound” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: “Spellbound” is a drama noir about insanity and is the first screenplay dealing with the benefits of psychoanalysis. Starring Joseph Cotten and Mercedes McCambridge, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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| 0:00.0 | When Salem Rowanoke took a job near his family's new home as a hired hand in the Texas Hill |
| 0:05.9 | country, he anticipated learning the rancher's trade, but a series of strange events, shocking |
| 0:11.6 | murders, and unholy revelations divert him down another path. |
| 0:17.0 | This terrifying trajectory puts him directly into the middle of a struggle between monsters, |
| 0:22.4 | magic, and men, armed and backed by a militia of ranchers. |
| 0:26.8 | Salem attempts to combat the creeping tide of evil that threatens to engulf his new home |
| 0:31.3 | and destroy the people most important to him. |
| 0:34.1 | Will Salem manage to save his home or have his actions condemn everyone he hopes to |
| 0:39.2 | save? |
| 0:40.4 | The Witch Trials, a summer of wolves and season of the witch by SR Rowanoke, available |
| 0:45.7 | in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions, look for The Witch Trials by SR Rowanoke on |
| 0:51.3 | Amazon or find it on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. |
| 0:55.6 | That's WeirdDarkness.com slash audiobooks. |
| 1:25.6 | The Witch Trials, a summer of wolves and season of the witch by SR Rowanoke on Amazon |
| 1:55.6 | and the witch by SR Rowanoke on Amazon or find it on Amazon or find it on Amazon or find |
| 2:26.5 | Welcome weirdos, I'm Darren Marlar and this is Retro Radio, old time radio in The |
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| 2:40.4 | I'll have stories of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime and even some dark science |
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